2008 Nov 4, 8:33"Watch as real-time election results come in on Tuesday, November 4th. Select a state to see county-by-county results and view House and Senate races by using the dropdown toolbar."
google map politics visualization elections mashup president 2008 Oct 22, 2:14"Everyone knows who Banksy is-- but the international streetart community has hundreds of other great artists that deserve your attention. Here's a selection of the very best."
art streetart graffiti banksy cultural-disobediance 2008 Oct 17, 11:24"John McCain at the Al Smith dinner"
huror video politics mccain obama election 2008 Oct 17, 11:23"Barack Obama speaks at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner"
humor video obama mccain youtube politics election 2008 Oct 13, 10:53"This is an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions list) for the 2008 United States Presidential Election. I need to disclose up front that I am an Obama supporter. However, with the exception of the very
last question, this FAQ is designed as a collection of factual information (such as the latest poll results) and of analysis that is as objective as possible."
via:kris.kowal politics election obama mccain 2008 Sep 11, 1:02Register to vote in Washington State online. "You must complete a voter registration form if you are registering for the first time in Washington or if you have moved to a new county. If you have
moved within the same county, you may transfer your registration by completing a new form or contacting your County Auditor by mail, email, or phone. There is no registration by political party in
Washington state."
politics government vote washington elections registration 2008 Sep 8, 10:23"Voices without Votes opens a window on what non-Americans are saying in blogs and citizen media about US foreign policy and the 2008 presidential elections."
via:sambrook vote politics government blog 2008 Apr 3, 9:00
With the new features of IE8 there's several easy ways to integrate Gmail, Google's web mail service, for mail composition, searching, and monitoring that I enjoy using.
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Composition
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I made a Send via Gmail activity that allows you to select some text, a document, or link and via the activity menu open a new tab to compose a new message with the selection. Go to my activity page and click "Send via Gmail" (source) to install it. I found info on the gmail composition URL in the comments of this gmail howto article and used that in the
activity. I talked about activities previously.
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Search
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I've made a search provider that searches your gmail account. See my search provider page and select 'Gmail' (source) to install the Gmail search provider. Search providers aren't new to IE8 but this fits in with Gmail integration in IE. Again in the
comments of another howto I found information on a Gmail search URL.
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Monitor
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New to IE8 is authenticated feed support and favorites bar monitoring which combined with the Gmail inbox feed
means you can see when you get new mail in your favorites bar in IE. To do this, navigate to the feed https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom,
click 'Subscribe to this feed', then click on the Add button in the upper left (the star with plus icon) and select 'Monitor on Favorites Bar' to add this as a monitored item in the favorites
bar. Next, right click on the new item in your favorites bar, open the properties dialog, and enter your Gmail username and password into the new username and password fields. Now when you get
new mail the Gmail feed item will shine and bold and you'll be able to get to new messages in the dropdown. I described monitored feed items previously.
activity gmail search howto google ie feed rss opensearch 2008 Mar 5, 11:36
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is available now. I can finally talk about some of the stuff I've been
working on for the past year or so: activities. Activities let you select a document,
some text on a document, or a link to a document and run that selection through a web service. For example, you could select a word on a webpage and look it up in Wikipedia, select an address and
map it on Yahoo Maps, select a webpage and translate it into English with Windows Live Translator, or select a link and add it to Digg.
IE8 comes installed with some activities based on Microsoft web services but there's a page you can go to to
install other activities. However, that page is missing some of my favorites that I use all the time, like del.icio.us.
Accordingly, I've put together a page of the activities I use. MSDN has all the info on creating Activities.
Activities are very similar to other existing features in other browsers including the ability to add context menu items to IE.
There's two important differences which make activities better. Activities have a preview window that pops out when you hover over an activity, which is useful to get in place information easily
provided by developers. The other is that the interface is explicit and takes after HTML FORMs and OpenSearch descriptions. Because the interface is explicitly described in XML (unlike the context
menu additions described above which run arbitrary script) we have the ability to use activities in places other than on a webpage in the future. And because activity definitions are similar to
HTML FORMs, if your webservice has an HTML FORM describing it you can easily create an activity.
microsoft technical activity openservice ie8 ie activities msdn 2008 Feb 26, 10:16The ONN has a story on Diebold leaking the results of the 2008 US presidential election.
via:felix42 humor onion video election government diebold 2007 May 17, 5:16Previously I created some
resource tools and then I used them to
overwrite msxml3's
XML source view. In this update I've added support for the XPointer Framework.
This time around I've started to add support for the
XPointer Framework to my
XML source view and
I've added
installation instructions. The framework consists of a series of pointer segments each of which has a scheme name followed
by data in parenthesis. For example 'scheme1(data1)scheme2(data2)scheme3(data3)'. A pointer segment resolves to a portion of the XML document based on the data and the scheme name. The whole pointer
resolves to the first segment that successfully resolves. That is, from the example, if scheme1 resolves to nothing and scheme2 resolves to something then that's used and scheme3 is ignored. In
addition to the framework I've added support for the
xmlns scheme which binds namespace prefixes to a namespace URI and the
element scheme which is a simple way to resolve to particular elements in an XML. I also have limited support for the
xpointer scheme the content of which is resolved as an
XPath with some extra functions (which I don't support --
hence the limited). I've also thrown in schemes for the two
SelectionLanguage values supported by msxml3.
Next time I might try to support the xpointer functions that aren't in xpath using
msxml script. But I think I'm losing steam on
this project... we'll see.
resource technical xml xpointer res xpath xslt 2007 Apr 11, 9:12Show Flickr photos on Google Earth. Its pretty neat. Light on features though like no user selection.
googel map flickr photos geo 2006 Nov 8, 9:08Article about the results of the midterm elections held yesterday. Ah the Onion. So funny. So very funny. I really like the pie chart in the article.
onion politics humor article 2006 Aug 31, 7:44More Torrent research. This is a paper describing performance of BitTorrent's block and peer selection algorithms.
p2p torrent report reference internet algorithm performance
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